Stephen Jay Hawkings
Vital Football Legend
I wasn’t at the game yesterday but one of the things that’s dropped off since Dean’s early games is the continual pressing by our midfield and attackers when the opposition defence has the ball. We now appear to concede that territory without a fight. I commented during the Swansea loss that Swansea are doing to us what we should be doing to them - no time to settle on the ball, pressing defenders into making mistakes.
This fits the notion that we have dropped the effort level and reverted to type, from aggressive to passive.
Are they knackered? Is there a fundamental problem with fitness at the club that has been a problem for years?